@technosailor thinks I'm smoking crack. Someone go yell at him for me. I'm tired - Erin @queenofspain

If you don't think they talk about you after the party... I think it's just human nature to do it, just everyone has a soapbox now. - Eric @ CS Techcast

If you haven't read this, you need to. - Shawn Farner

not saying they don't, but they are trying to quantify my friendships and how well I work a room. it's rude - Erin @queenofspain

What Erin said. It's one thing to abstract best practices for organizations or "personal brands" - quite another to call out individuals on their habits. However, it's reality and probably going to continue, as bloggers need something to blog about. - Laura Norvig

Ah Erin, I don't know. At least people are talking about you. No such thing as bad press, right? - Eric @ CS Techcast

I'm sure it will continue. But I'm uncomfy with it...to say the least - Erin @queenofspain

Actually, the behavior Erin describes happens all the time. Remember when US Magazine used to publish "Who's Hot, Who's Not"? Perhaps in a webby world where everyone is their own actor/producer/director, it's natural that we end up getting evaluated like celebrities. - Ontario Emperor

My personal view? In one sense, I don't really care who Wil likes or who Louis likes or who Robert likes or who Erin likes. If I were to slavishly copy the top ten likes of someone, it would be someone who shares all of my myriad interests - and last I checked, Robert's life wasn't really governed by Stan Ridgway's 1980s musical output. - Ontario Emperor

Hi Ontario and Erin and all. I have no interest in highlighting the best users of specific applications. My interests don't match yours. When I do put a list together on occasion, it's my opinion only. I'm not so egotistical to think I can grade your behavior. - Louis Gray

I dunno - I have an inherent love of lists anyway, and I've never thought about this from the angle you have. I enjoy the lists of favorite Friendfeeders, for example, not because I'm ever on them, but because they introduce me to people to follow I might not have seen before. I see no problem in saying "such and such is a great FFer because they have brought a lot of value to me personally." It's not a competition, because the results are neither objective nor exclusive. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Hey, Gregory, no one is paying attention to me. I AM THE FUTURE!!! - Eric @ CS Techcast

My idea here is less about who's the best at marketing or who you like the best and enjoy following. It's the so called expert 'ranking' of how well *I* 'do' social media - Erin @queenofspain

I just accept that I *do* social media the way I do social. Sometimes great, sometimes awkward, usually loud. People like it or they don't, but I rarely rise to the level of being 'ranked'. - Karoli

So totally like you! Same thing. Loud, awkward, maybe not great. I am never ranked and don't care. Wouldn't do what it takes to be ranked. See my blog today. - Francine Hardaway

Already did, even shared it on Google Reader. It was exactly what I was thinking, too. :) - Karoli

I only know one thing - when you start changing you to get someone else to think you are "great" you immediately become mediocre. - Brian Roy

That's the truth. It's the same thinking that creates euphemisms like 'social media'. it's just frackin' social, whether here, there, on or offline. - Karoli

We use our old-style thinking to explain new things we come across. You would think that would make things simple, but then we take it a step further and try to make things sound more exciting with buzz words and such. Not only that, but we try to use old-style metrics on these new things, which is like putting a square peg in a round hole. - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

Actually, I believe we spend too much time talking about derivative things as if they were completely new and about to change the fundamental nature of Human existance. - Brian Roy

That's true, Brian, but I also think it's debatable whether some things are simple derivatives. We could probably define everything as a derivative of something, but many people wouldn't be able to make the connection. - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

LOL, maybe even 20 years too young. Emily Post was the arbiter of all things etiquette. http://www.emilypost.com/everyda... - Karoli

That was the second full fledged grin out of me this evening. :-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

Bravos, Erin. - Dave Martin

Ragsheen - I have to tell you, that doesn't make me feel any better. - Brian Roy

The vehicle or medium might be new. People are still people, looking for connections, relevance, like-minded souls in their sphere. - Karoli

it's very simple to me. there is no other medium I know of that ranks how good you are at being social. unless you count paparazzi and dude, if that is where we are headed...shoot me. Now - Erin @queenofspain

and as a side note I now feel old for referencing Emily Post - Erin @queenofspain

The lists I've seen were meant to give hew users find active participants to follow and others find people interested in what they are interested in. They weren't meant to grade anyone or as popularity contests. - Internet Strategist